skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had the unfortunate privilege of meeting two of the first "techbros". They were marketers more than tech people, but they were tech-adjacent and that was enough to make them cutting edge.

The thing they kept saying was "We'll run it through the machine." Meaning "We'll hand that off to our software team and have them complete it." Of course today, the one who stayed in tech might be salivating about running software requirements through an actual machine to produce code.
maybe someone should start the American Anti-Diabetes Association.
The problem with using braille characters is the spacing which leaves to uneven distribution of "pixels". This could be improved by using octants, which will be included in Unicode 16.

https://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-16.0/U160-1CC00.p...
OK, but remember, you asked for this. Again.

Just to be clear, here is what you asked:

> can you explain why you speak so confidently, and repeatedly claim that your claims are necessarily factual?

That is not one question, it's two questions, with different answers.

The reason I speak confidently is that I am confident. Why am I confident? Because I apply the scientific method to everything I do (or at least I try), I've been doing it for a very, very long time, and it produces consistently good results for me. One thing that entails is putting a lot of effort into seeking out people who disagree with me to see if they can find problems with my arguments, and when they do, I fix them. Over time the problems get harder and harder to find because there are fewer and fewer of them, and so it happens less and less frequently. But it happens. Here's an example:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2023/04/bitcoins-value-propositi...

The last time I can recall encountering something that presented a serious challenge to my core beliefs was nearly five years ago:

https://blog.rongarret.info/2019/07/the-trouble-with-many-wo...

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The answer to the second question is that it assumes a false premise. I'm pretty sure that I have never claimed that anything I say is necessarily factual, though it's possible I may have done so at some point in a fit of pique. If I did, it certainly wasn't intentional.

In fact, if you had bothered to do your homework, you would know that I've explicitly said on the record that nothing is ever "necessarily factual".

https://blog.rongarret.info/2024/04/three-myths-about-scient...

"science never proves anything; instead it produces explanations of observations"

So your second question is simply a straw man.

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As long as I'm taking the time to respond to you, there was something you said earlier that I wanted to reply to at the time but decided not to. I've changed my mind (see, it happens):

> I am trying to figure out if you have self-awareness ... it feels like you must be trolling me

Funny, I was thinking the exact same thing.
Warren Buffett Praises Apple After Berkshire Hathaway Cuts Stake
They're gonna imprison him either way. Being guilty of pissing off the judge is sure to be a lesser crime than whatever it is he's guilty of.
Did you enjoy the crappy 90s CGI Jabba the Hutt composited in a shot with Han Solo? They look like overlapping sprites due to bad collision detection. Pathetic.
First thing to do on a new ubuntu computer:

Insert archlinux install USB stick and reboot!

Firends don't let friends run ubuntu...
My 7950X3D also reports 192MB L3 cache, both in windows and in HWinfo

windows: https://i.imgur.com/K9BHcp4.png
hwinfo: https://i.imgur.com/xyHDER8.png
aida64 cpuid: https://i.imgur.com/atQOHTr.png
You conveniently ignore

I could say you conveniently ignore the fact your comment was downvoted and flagkilled by other users. And like the other commenter, I'm trying to tell you why that happens - it's not, as you seem to think, because those users are keen on supporting an abuser.
One thing I worry about is how normalized this will be for children and countries without regular internet access as they get regular internet access (or even have had it for a while: the report from OP states that 71 percent of traffic on Irish sites are bots).

The experience of the internet will be bots and because the usefulness of the medium isn't going away, they will keep using it. Everything being bots will be normal.

At some point things like ubiquitous ads, smog, light pollution or dozens of corporate microphones in our house was something humans first started experiencing and having trepidations about. Then it got normalized. Sometimes we fixed it like smog or CFCs and sometimes it became one the largest sectors of our economy (ads). Statistically, it seems more likely that dead internet is here to stay
how does dillo compare with netsurf? I've been considering porting netsurf to an unusual platform, but if dillo has substantially better handling of modern pages, I might use it instead
Tell me you don’t understand Han without telling me you don’t understand Han.
There was once a highly derided post on this website about "the cult" of stratospheric aerosol (sulfur) injection.

I was one of those contributing to the derision. I am now rethinking my negative thoughts on the topic.

I must admit that funding stratospheric sulfur injection + funding Terraform Industries, might be our best bet, given the timeline.

I would love to hear about alternatives.
They are competent people, just not in the fields techies want.

When you're a national laboratory and your wallet is taxes from fellow Americans, it is very important that you find a balance between bang and buck. Lest you get your budget slashed or worse.
I believe the new term for Phoenix, AZ and other major cities in AZ is "Silicon Desert". You can see a map of the many companies in the high tech space in AZ at the following site.

https://siliconmaps.com/silicon-desert/
Many modern brick buildings, have a wood structure with steel brackets, and the brick is only facing, and is not what is holding up the roof. Older brick homes do have brick structural walls or pillars inside, but in recent decades those are usually re-enforced concrete blocks.
Major Study Finds 15 Factors Linked to Early Dementia Risk
Why would you assume that a hybrid scheme would shift that any more or less than the private insurance companies were already doing?
I can’t tell if you believe the world is actually more dangerous now than it was in the past or if you are describing public perception.
I feel like I just got a taste of what omnivorous people get when I advocate for synthetic meat.
It’s the human equivalent of rolling wooden balls or something
I think the loss of a major character beat is exactly what bothers people—it’s the whole point of the original scene. Aside from the modified action just looking really goofy.
> that example picture looked pretty brutal

Thankfully, TFA: there was "no visual impairment", and "over the subsequent days, the worker reported resolution of conjunctivitis without respiratory symptoms, and household contacts remained well." So it just looked bad.
> TIL of Spartan Protocol

You can browse spartan pages with a Dillo plugin[1], as well as Gopher, Gemini and others.

[1]: https://dillo-browser.github.io/#plugins

> how is it handling modern security features like new versions of TLS or SSL

We support OpenSSL 1.1 and 3 (and any other API-compatible), LibreSSL and mbedTLS 2 and 3. You can choose the one you like/trust more at link time.
Nobody price gouges unless market forces let them. It simply wouldn't work. And they also didn't create the situation that allowed them to price gouge. Yet, it's still price gouging. "But the market" is not a defense against accusations of price gouging.
I apologize, this is such a strange way to be positioned to all this. The point of bringing up something like the practice of slavery in early America is not about "blaming" people about anything. They are already dead! Many generations over. This conceit that the bare acknowledgement of history itself should merely serve to assign blame or culpability to certain people or another feels just so wrong.

The point is that it happened. It was determined and sustained by countless totally mechanical and impersonal conditions and tendencies. Just as the operative ideologies in play in the minds of all our fave founding fathers can only be viewed from our purview as some composite of factors, not as some collection of good guys and bad guys. To point out that maybe they should not be a moral compass to us today is not scapegoating them in some grand moral court of human existence! Its just making a point, and urging historical context as a tool to maybe be a little more rational about our world today. There is nothing at stake but that.
I had to reboot one of our servers last year, also just over 6 years. Reboot because physical move to another server hotel, not because it wasn't working :-)

It is running imagemagic to optimize images, create different resolutions and reencode them. It's only open for us to upload manually from our customers though, they can't upload themselves. Input anything, output jpg, very easy to use.
I don't remember the exact list, but it was 4-6 life events that are each potentially worth $100+ per person to marketers, and I think that was in ~1996 dollars.

Iirc:

College graduation/ first real job, Wedding, first home purchase, first kid on the way, retirement filed-for, and ??? I'm forgetting something. Maybe out-of-town move?

Related and overlapping: I suggest searching for the late 90s article on Target basically telling a teen that she was pregnant via direct mailers before she even knew. Dad over reacts then has to eat his accusation when they (Target) were right.

Based on non-typical purchase of un-scented lotion and 2-3 other undisclosed items.

I'm sure it's only gotten worse since then.
What Makes a Society More Resilient? Frequent Hardship.
Because Jesus was very clear in his beliefs about money.
At 9AM the temperature on Earth is "on pace" to exceed the surface of the Sun. But after sunset we're "on pace" to an ice age. Meanwhile Bloomberg seems "on pace" to be dissolved.
https://archive.ph/2024.05.01-153459/https://www.nytimes.com...
It's in the changelog summary:

> Add support for OpenSSL, LibreSSL and mbed TLS for HTTPS, which is now enabled by default.
True, but that's a separate category for two reasons:

1) Because the emissions profiles of said vehicles are dramatically different, and it's unfair to drivers of low-emissions passenger cars to conflate them. "Everyone who drives" can't be said to be equally culpable if the minority that drive SUVs and trucks produce more than 2/3 of personal-transportation emissions.

2) Because the usage profiles are different. Yes, many light trucks are driven as personal vehicles, but they're also used for real work that even non-drivers are reaping the benefits from. When the cable guy or the plumber comes to your apartment building to make a repair, they come in a light truck.

I wish the numbers broke down emissions by usage type instead of or in addition to vehicle type, but we don't have that. As is, I'm comfortable saying that somewhere between 5.8% and 16.5% of our emissions come from personal transportation, and I don't believe that that alters my argument in any meaningful way.
Reminiscent of a scene from Billions: https://www.reddit.com/r/Billions/comments/czlg4u/need_help_...
CA (un)FAIR Plan is required to periodically attempt to find and place policyholders with alternate carriers if there are options. They operate a clearinghouse to do this.

While the FAIR Plan is not required to help a policyholder mitigate their risk, it does offer up to 14.5% discounts off the wildfire peril premium for those who take mitigation actions prescribed by CA Department of Insurance (CDI), including being a member of a Firewise USA Community in good standing, screening vents with 1/8in metal mesh, etc.

All admitted carriers are also required to consider these mitigations actions when determining premiums; however, most of these rate filings have not yet worked their way through the overly bureaucratic CDI review process.

The bigger trend right now is the Wildfire Prepared Home program, which is the only science-based standard recognized by insurers.
I'm also beyond disappointed with 24. I've been clinging on to 18 for dear life for some time now. 24 is buggy as all hell.The iso was suspiciously large for an Ubuntu image, that should have been the first red flag. Nothing works correctly. I can't get a single Deb to install. The snap store just hangs on a search indefinitely. I even went and had lunch and came back . Still searching. The snap store wants to update itself but can't because it's open . Hit or miss mostly miss trying to install debs from cli ...its a polished turd. They made the ui snappy so people feel like its an improvement. I'm not a Linux master but I'm also not a noob. I've always had a really hard time getting Debian to install on raid but I'm hearing good things about 12 I'm going to give it another go because 24 is just muff cabbage. If im unable to get Debian to be agreeable perhaps I'll try 20 or 22 && maybe come back to 24 when 26 is Lts and they have some time to work on it .Push notifications. For everything, why do you need a notification that my terminal is open . Why is that even a thing why would the devs even continplate it might take so long to open a cli window that I may need to be reminded that it's finally open. Is I better the paying for window and dealing with all of the intrusive bs going on. Maybe .. if you don't have things to get done and have time to spend working on the environment enough to just be stable. Muff cabbage, clown shoes, pift and rabble
I have a special interest in the post-mortem story of tech companies from the 70's, 80's, 90's, 00's. The HP, DEC, IBM, WordStar, RIM. I love the stories and the patterns they provide.

Most companies reach a size and tenure where they are still trying to grow by a certain percentage every year. They had grown year after year, but as they saturate the market or the market starts to shift they can't grow at the same rate they once did. As they turn into a stable dividend type company ideally growth should more match general market growth, but still growing.

Google makes a lot of its money from showing ads to those using search. They are facing your classic innovator's dilemma. The upstart that can't do 1/100th of what you can, but that one thing it can do it does so much better and they start taking customers and they start climbing that classic S curve of growth. Many of these companies built themselves internally for growth, not for sustainability. Internal incentives cause them to bleed the smartest and brightest & outsource whole departments rather than simplifying. Layers of bureaucracy slow down everything further letting those scrappy startups go after opportunities that the old guard couldn't.

No one thinks Google will go from 23B to 0 by next quarter, no the thing they are talking about is when companies like this don't go from 23B to 25B, but instead to 22.9B.

Y Combinator teaches startups all about the beginning of the diffusion of innovation because that is what is most important. I could probably give a little class on the other side of it, call it the missing lesson or something fun. The value isn't in learning how to not get into the same trap, but to understand your competition better and how to learn what is most likely going on internally and how to exploit it.
Why significant numbers of US PhD students rely on donated and discounted food
> In general, management wants dates, because most activities that aren't software projects are coordinated through calendar dates, and software projects don't exist in isolation.

very true, though i wonder how agile (small a) fits in to all of this, can an organization that is working iteratively on all fronts (including management) avoid (or at least reduce) these dependencies?
From <https://dillo-browser.github.io/dillo.org.html>

> we have setup a new website based on GitHub pages (so hopefully it won't dissapear soon)

Why cede control of your namespace to GitHub, though? You can host stuff on GitHub Pages without having to go through github.io to get there. Just grab another (cheap) domain and set up a CNAME record to point to GitHub Pages.
2024 solution? I don't know about that. Companies typically use software to manage these complaints across multiple social media platforms. Ever since Twitter began charging an obscene amount of money for their API, companies just shrugged and said goodbye.
Amazing! Congrats on finishing the second edition and thanks for so many great resources.
No visual impairment, but wouldn't it still feel bad? Like pinkeye on steroids.
Thank you so much! I owe you a <insert-drink-of-your-choice>!
I'm not singling out Opera. Edge is the worst.
I dont think that you can view housing as a fixed quantity of resources that are being allocated.

Houses dont grow on trees. They take many thousands of man-hours to build, and hundreds of thousands in materials, even in the absence of land scarcity.

Landlords front the cost of these things. without them, most of the housing stock would never be built, and there would be nowhere to stay for anyone who doesnt have good credit and a pile of money.
Ask HN: Is having Salesforce on your resume a red flag?
Lately I have seen positions for Salesforce developers that range from writing AMPscript for emails to working on their email builder Web application.

I threw the idea around in a group I casually socialize with. The consensus was that putting Salesforce work on your resume would be looked down upon by other developers and would ruin your chances of getting hired as a developer in the future.

What do folks here think about all of this? How true is it?
This is a lot more valuable when you line on up with the established "Bredesen Protocol" for treating cognitive decline. The FDA wouldn't approve the Bredesen Protocol because it affects too many variables for their analytical expertise.
What prevents you from doing some tests? We have seen Dillo running in a lot of old and not very common machines (Atari), so you may have some work already done.
It takes me significantly longer than that. The pumps aren't infinitely fast. The cashier is serving other clients. I have to drive to the gas station and back. All of that adds up to more like 15 minutes.
I don't think this project was actually meant for production use, and especially not under decidedly hostile conditions.

I'd suggest existing tooling like `exiftool` to do mimetype detection and metadata stripping.
If you like the Demaines' work, you'll probably like the award-winning PBS documentary Between The Folds [0] which features them and many other amazing people working with origami.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiIr7du6Y3w
I doubt this can happen unless we start calling them something else. Any better fitting ideas?
Sadly my answer is: because I’m old. That album was a big deal back in the day.
A lot of the time police would like to do their damn job, but they have been crippled by more and more restrictions. And then even if they manage to still do their job, the justice system doesn't cooperate, letting criminals out on ridiculously low bails, lenient sentences, etc. All in the name of "disproportionately impacted".
Perfect garage science experiments. not just unwise explosives, but also unwise amounts of electric current to play with.

what happens if you dump the current into a "shrinker coil" surrounding the generator? before it all becomes an expanding cloud of vapor, that is. I'm not sure but it made great holes in the shed roof. and the tree above the shed.
I'm curious how a business pivots from drone delivery to GPU Airbnb?
Spillover transmission risk is high for farm workers, the CDC released new guidance last week.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h5/worker-protection-ppe.ht...
> He should put it in Swiss bank so they can’t touch it.

That era is long gone.
Interesting research experiment. Apparently it's a little nicer than flying economy on Spirit.
I had no contract that said I could live there. Somebody had a rental agreement at some point I guess. Nothing was in my name.

Legal basis? That costs a lot of money to determine sometimes. Let's just settle up and move on with our lives. $1,000 cash and you never ever have to deal with me again.
Note: CA (un)FAIR Plan is not underwritten nor operated by the State of California. It is a state-mandated insurer of last resort run by an association of admitted insurers. If it experiences losses that exceed its assets and reinsurance coverage (which its president has said is a real probability), then every admitted policyholder in CA would be assessed a fee over the course of 1-3 years to cover the gap.

The CA FAIR Plan only offers $300/sq foot to rebuild, which is far less than the $500-1000/sq foot it costs to build new construction in most parts of the state.

In other words: the backstop for the CA FAIR Plan being unable to charge risk-appropriate premiums is an involuntarily assessment of policyholders in lower risk locations.
Nice PR stunt.

In their videos they show a 747 when the reality will be the less spacious Gulfstream G5. But perhaps that’s to show the ambition.

The cost is $8k for London-NY one way (human + dog). At that price your dog should get some service.

But I wonder how they can keep that up. Depending on the source, chartering such a plane for this route costs $80-100k for 19 seats. They can only sell 9 tickets which doesn’t leave them much of a margin.
Funny story about priorities. My boss once gave me two top priorities. I told her, "there can be only one". She resisted a bit, but luckily these two projects literally required sacks of cement to be brought from hundreds of kilometers away by truck (context: humanitarian aid). I said, "if only enough cement arrives for one of them on the next truck, which one gets it?"

It was at that moment she understood why there can be only one top priority. She was a good boss, and learned a lot from working with a hard-headed engineer.
What a strange article.

Obviously the question that really needs answered is “does Flutter have a future?”

Given Google is notorious for killing popular products, the fact they just fired a bunch of people dedicated to make this product work and the rather niche nature of Dart and Flutter… all signs point to it being becoming an open source project.

Can it survive as an OSS project?
A) I don't know where your part of the world is, but this is an article about the US market on a US website. You might live somewhere with entirely government subsidized housing and it would have no bearing whatsoever on the realities of this market. Even within the US, market's where landlords don't have the leverage to price gouge aren't a problem. People who want to price gouge who don't have the leverage to price gouge are never a problem until they get it.

B) Landlords always throw their hands up and say "but the expenses!" but they never have the receipts handy. Are there missed expenses? Of course. But the chance of there being enough missed expenses to change the nature of this conversation is pretty much nil. If there's no actual evidence– and there never is– assuming it exists would be ridiculous.

C) In the markets where this is the biggest concern, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments yield upwards of 5k per month. You could include a free leased Porsche for each tenant and not touch 50% expenses.

D) Paying your mortgage, beyond the interest, is not an expense. It's your money. You get the equity.
> Therefore, my notes end up a muddled version of the source material and I’ll just use the source material for reference, making the initial note take a big waste of time from the standpoint of having an easy reference available.

There's more value to note-taking than just having a reference afterwards. The act can be helpful with retention.
I don't reference a lot of my notes.
Wow, other than retirement, I’m glad I passed all those milestones in the before times.